The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll:
2022

Ballot 2022

Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Moor Mother, Jazz Codes (Anti-)
  2. Mary Halvorson, Belladonna (Nonesuch)
  3. Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley], Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes (Pyroclastic)
  4. Dave Douglas Quintet, Songs of Ascent: Book 1 -- Degrees (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Bobby Watson, Back Home in Kansas City (Smoke Sessions)
  6. Anat Cohen, Quartetinho (Anzic)
  7. Matthew Shipp Trio, World Construct (ESP-Disk')
  8. Hermon Mehari, Asmara (Komos)
  9. Tyshawn Sorey Trio + 1 With Greg Osby, The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Pi)
  10. Nduduzo Makhathini, In the Spirit of Ntu (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Miles Davis, That's What Happened [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: 1982-1985] (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Andrew Cyrille-Elliot Sharp-Richard Teitelbaum, 2011, Evocation (Infrequent Seams)
  3. Geri Allen-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at the Village Vanguard (Unissued Tracks) (1990, DIW)

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Note: Voter published an extended list or essay here.